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What comes after ingress-nginx?

What comes after ingress-nginx?

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Last November, the Kubernetes project announced the discontinuation of the popular ingress controller ingress-nginx. After a best-effort transition phase until March 2026, the project will no longer receive any releases, bug fixes or security updates from this point onwards. That time has now come, and so we want to take another look at the question: What comes after ingress-nginx? Why was ingress-nginx discontinued? ingress-nginx is an open source project. Intended as a reference...

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